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India adding newborns and recently deceased to Aadhaar digital ID registry
India will soon cover people from birth to death with its biometric national registry Aadhaar, according to The Economic Times, aiming to clamp down on fraud and widen the digital identity system’s...
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Gang spoofing fingerprint biometrics busted by India’s Cyberabad police
Seven persons suspected of cloning fingerprints to defraud poor farmers of money from their bank accounts through the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) have been arrested by the Cyberabad police...
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New biometric passport in India could debut by year end
The delayed debut of electronic passports in India by Tata Consultancy Services could occur by year end, according to reports. The software services firm is working with the government to expand...
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Mantra’s dual iris biometric scanner certified for use with India’s Aadhaar
Mantra Softech announced its iris scanner MATISX has received the Standardization Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) from the Indian government. The move enables government officials to use the...
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Transforming air travel in India with Digi Yatra and Amadeus software
Passenger aviation in India is on track to use more biometric technology. The country’s planned largest airport, Noida, currently under construction in Uttar Pradesh, is expected to have biometrics...
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Delhi Police criticized by watchdog over ‘patently incorrect’ replies on...
India’s Central Information Commission (CIC) has criticized the Delhi Police for giving “patently incorrect” replies to Right to Information (RTI) requests on its use of face detection technology...
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UIDAI CEO lauds successes of Aadhaar biometric ID at India Digital Week 2022
India has seen some of its major innovation-first projects driven largely by the Aadhaar biometric ID system, the new foundational identity platform on which all other digital services have been built...
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India’s RailTel plans facial recognition deployment at over 6K stations
India’s railways operator has unveiled a massive planned expansion of facial recognition camera systems across the country, eventually expected to reach 6,049 stations. RailTel announced that the...
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Selfie biometric authentication apps rolled out by India, New Zealand...
It is now possible for Aadhaar digital ID account holders to verify their identity using their phone when accessing some services thanks to a mobile face biometric authentication app from the Unique...
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China, Russia, India: facial recognition surveillance projects far from the...
Unmanned police surveillance vehicles patrol a city in Xinjiang, a Russian city in the Arctic Circle deploys a powerful facial recognition network and the southern Indian state of Telangana continues...
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UIDAI launches program to identify, block vulnerabilities in Aadhaar...
A bug bounty program whose objective is to enhance security around the Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) – the database holding biometric information of over 1.3 billion Aadhaar card holders –...
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Idemia official says data protection law vital for India’s federated ID project
India must introduce its personal data protection legislation if it is to press ahead with its federated identity infrastructure to link IDs, stated Mathew Foxton, regional president and executive...
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Corruption, costs and cut-offs: the human impact of Aadhaar implementation...
A series of reports list the ongoing issues surrounding India’s national digital identity project, Aadhaar. Its integration with government welfare is allowing corruption in ration distribution...
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Turant launches text-agnostic voice biometric login tool built for India
New Delhi and California-based Turant Inc has launched a language-agnostic voice biometric passwordless login solution targeted at the Indian market, and which should work on any language in the...
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Aadhaar still blocking school attendance, expected block for pregnancy welfare
Despite Aadhaar, India’s national digital identity scheme, not being a requirement to attend school, many children are being denied access across the country. Investigations also reveal that further...
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Biometrics deployments to facilitate airport passenger checks gain traction...
Systems to automate and expedite checks for passengers at airports with biometrics are finding more space as the travel industry continues to regain its boom. This is the case in the United States...
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India to attempt to deduplicate electoral roll via ‘voluntary’ Aadhaar-voter...
A campaign to encourage all voters in India to link their voter ID to their Aadhaar accounts, aimed at aiding deduplication, begins with confusing messaging around how voluntary it is. An opposition...
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India removes 9.8M entries from voter roll after biometric, demographic...
A biometric de-duplication exercise carried out by the Election Commission of India (ECI) has found almost 10 million duplicate entries in the country’s voter register, Hindustan Times reports, in the...
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India ticks off analysts’ steps to a digital public infrastructure
The World Economic Forum has published a bulletized list of insights for getting an effective digital public infrastructure out of design. It is a good cheat sheet to be followed with an analysis of...
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India’s military monitors disputed borders with facial recognition
India is expanding plans to revolutionize the way its troops carry out operations along its borders with China and Pakistan by deploying more artificial intelligence-based technologies and other smart...
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